by RailVet
"Destination: Freedom," the online rail newsletter, carried the following article in February 19, 2001 edition. Camp Lejeune's single locomotive, a GE 65-ton centercab, now operates on the New Hope Valley Railroad in Bonsal, NC. A picture of it may be found here:
www.nhvry.org/equipment.htm
The D:F article is below:
Marine Corps is losing its North Carolina railroad.
Last October, the Camp Lejeune Railroad Company (CL), a Norfolk Southern subsidiary, petitioned the Surface Transportation Board to abandon a 5.5-mile rail line between milepost CK-2.5 at Camp Lejeune and milepost CK-8.0 at Marine Junction, in Onslow County, N.C.
The STB said okay last week.
No freight service had originated or terminated on the line since June 1999. Two shippers located on the line, Barrus Concrete (APAC Carolina, Inc.) and Eastern Rulane Sales Corp. did not oppose the proposed abandonment, so the abandonment is effective on March 4.
The CL operated over the line under a lease from the federal government, but even though the government owns the line, it never operated it as a common carrier. CL's lease expired in August 1999, at which time it stopped service on the line. According to CL, the feds will not renew the lease because it wants the property.
The City of Jacksonville and NCDOT plan to use the property for a trail, commercial development, and to accommodate street improvements.
www.nationalcorridors.org/df/df02192001.shtml
www.nhvry.org/equipment.htm
The D:F article is below:
Marine Corps is losing its North Carolina railroad.
Last October, the Camp Lejeune Railroad Company (CL), a Norfolk Southern subsidiary, petitioned the Surface Transportation Board to abandon a 5.5-mile rail line between milepost CK-2.5 at Camp Lejeune and milepost CK-8.0 at Marine Junction, in Onslow County, N.C.
The STB said okay last week.
No freight service had originated or terminated on the line since June 1999. Two shippers located on the line, Barrus Concrete (APAC Carolina, Inc.) and Eastern Rulane Sales Corp. did not oppose the proposed abandonment, so the abandonment is effective on March 4.
The CL operated over the line under a lease from the federal government, but even though the government owns the line, it never operated it as a common carrier. CL's lease expired in August 1999, at which time it stopped service on the line. According to CL, the feds will not renew the lease because it wants the property.
The City of Jacksonville and NCDOT plan to use the property for a trail, commercial development, and to accommodate street improvements.
www.nationalcorridors.org/df/df02192001.shtml